Hair-tonic



N'ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEMUEL C. PETERS, OF VALLAOETON, PENNSYLVANIA.

HAIR-TONIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 451,838, dated May 5, 1891.

Application filed January 22, 1891. Serial No. 378,681. (No specimens.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEMUEL C. PETERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at VVallaceton, in the county of Olearfield and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful composition of matter to be used as a tonic and renewer of hair on the human head and face, of which the following is a specification.

My composition consists of the following ingredients, combined in the proportions stated, viz: best alcohol,sixty-four fluid ounces; pure sweet cream, sixteen fluid ounces; oil of winter-green, one-fourth fluid ounce; oil of bergamot, one-fourthfluid ounce; oil of orange, one-fourth fluid ounce; oil of bay,one-fourth fluid ounce; aqua-ammonia, one hundred and twenty-eight drops 5 water sufficient to make one gallon.

Mix the alcohol and sweet cream and let them stand for three days or longer. Then add the essential oils, the water, and the aquaand may be used beneficially on the beard and moustache.

For curing dandruff and for renewing and increasing the growth of the hair the compound should be applied twice a week regularly until a cure is effected.

In applying the compound asufficient quantity should be used to moisten the scalp well, and it should be rubbed in. thoroughly with the ends of the fingers, avoiding the use of the nails.

A moderate use of the compound steadily will keep the scalp in a healthy condition, will give strength to the follicles, will prevent the hair from getting prematurely gray, and will produce a good strong hair for every follicle there is left at the time its use is commenced.

The pure cream has wonderfully healing and cooling effects and is highly nutritious to the follicles. It also softens the skin and renders it pliable. The alcohol serves to allay inflammation, will add tone and strength to the scalp, and is, in connection with the ammonia, efficient as a cleansing agent. The oils of orange and winter-green give a pleasant perfume, and manifestly other like oils may be used as equivalents of those named without involving a departure from the broad spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is The herein-described composition of matter to be used as a hair tonic, renewer, &c., consisting of alcohol, pure sweet cream, oil of winter-green, oil of bergamot, oil of orange, oil of bay, agua;ammonia, and water, in about the proportions specified.

LEMUEL C. PETERS.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM PATERSON, OSCAR MITCHELL. 

